Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 2 | That hateful inspector had dragged her away , even though Ma had been weeping enough to fill a kettle . |
| 3 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 4 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 6 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 7 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 8 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 9 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 10 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 11 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 12 | ‘ Been seeing much of McCloy lately , Charlie ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 14 | ‘ You been seeing much of him recently ? ’ |
| 15 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 16 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 17 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 19 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 20 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 21 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 22 | What had her eyes been seeing all this time ? |
| 23 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 24 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 25 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 26 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 27 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 28 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 29 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 30 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |